There are a lot of really bad blog posts on the internet. Most days, it’s a good idea for everyone to just ignore the bad blog posts, because at root they are all just derivatives of the same style of incurious, inflammatory writing. But sometimes there is a blog so bad that it cannot be ignored, like the one that was… »4/28/15 10:48am 4/28/15 10:48am

In a world where even Dan Shaughnessy will hedge against his own stupidity, we desperately need a local newspaper columnist who isn't afraid to dish out the kind of moral rectitude and one-sentence KABOOM paragraphs that will put the sporting world back on the path to righteousness. We need a hero. We need the… »7/11/14 10:24am 7/11/14 10:24am

Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy is going to be away from the team for a few days on paternity leave, because his wife had a child and he wants to be with his wife and child. This is a thing that men in America, even athletes, do. Usually if they don't, it's because they're not lucky enough to have a good job where… »4/02/14 5:37pm 4/02/14 5:37pm

This has to be some kind of record. The Los Angeles Dodgers are just two official games into the season, and the Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke has already fired off his first "Yasiel Puig is tearing this team apart!" column of the year. It doesn't make any damn sense. »3/26/14 11:57am 3/26/14 11:57am

When we started in on our project of making a farce and mockery of baseball's annual Hall of Fame election by buying a vote from a veteran baseball writer and then turning it over to the public, we had two principal aims. One was to draw attention to the way an increasingly ridiculous election process has diminished… »1/09/14 6:42pm 1/09/14 6:42pm

When we announced last week that we had purchased a Hall of Fame vote, making a mockery and farce of the process by which veteran baseball writers anoint the elect among retired ballplayers and usher them into the sacred temple at Cooperstown, we had one question: Will the takes be strong? Happily, they were. »12/02/13 5:02pm 12/02/13 5:02pm

Go check out Tomas Rios's brief history of the hot take, which traces the form's roots back to the cloying mythmaking of Grantland Rice and the bitter misanthropy of Dick Young, and argues that those two things aren't really very different at all. [PSMag] »8/15/13 11:57am 8/15/13 11:57am